Garlands, School Road, Messing, Colchester CO5 9TH

Detached house · 2021 · 202 m² · Owner-Occupied · Air source heat pump, underfloor, electric

Upgrade Plan

BA for £4,500 · £4,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£0+5.0 pts · reaches A

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£1,138
per year at grade B

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £732 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

School Road: 28 sales since 1995 · £422,818 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Messing Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Baynards Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Milldene Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Thurstable SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.19 · average (2023/24)
Honywood SchoolSecondary4.0 miProgress 8 -0.33 · below average (2023/24)
Lift New RickstonesSecondary4.9 miProgress 8 -0.43 · below average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

7.7
crimes a month
77
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 51% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021643, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

School Road

How this home sits against its street.

18
graded homes
58.7
average score
D
most common grade
+28.3
this home vs street
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